From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2008-10-04T05:18:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Is Assignment in a Conditional an Idiom?

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:

> As is the rescue clause, I really would know more about why not to use it.

It swallows all possible errors, not just the one you're banking on
running into if your object is nil.


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